The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
Agatha Christie and Sophie Hannah
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The new Hercule Poirot novel - another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the...
The Vegetarian: A Novel
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Exclusively for Foyles we talked to Han Kang and her translator Deborah Smith on the morning of the...
Neverwhere
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Neverwhere is the stunningly original first novel from Neil Gaiman, the bestselling and prizewinning...
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Christ's Entry into Brussels
Dimitri Verhulst and David Colmer
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It is announced that Jesus Christ is to visit Belgium in a few weeks time, on its national day, the...
Everything is Illuminated
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Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for...
At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City
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The films of Orson Welles inhabit the spaces of cities-from America's industrializing midland to its...
Blood of the Rose
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"It started low and soft, but grew slowly, increasing in pitch and volume into an unceasing scream...
On Bowie
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What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of...
Sarah (7798 KP) rated My Dad Wrote A Porno in Podcasts
Jul 15, 2020
This is possibly the funniest thing I've ever heard. Let's be honest, this isn't for the faint hearted or those easily offended as it's pretty explicit, but boy is it laugh out loud hilarious. The funniest thing is the fact that this is actually a real book series written by Jamie Morton's dad (aka Rocky Flintstone) and that this hasn't just been written to make fun. His writing style is bonkers and the way it moves from mundane description to ridiculous and completely unappealing porn scenarios is so bizarre. And then listening to this book being narrated by Jamie just adds to the laughs. Listening to his, Alice Levine's and James Cooper's commentary feels like you're sat in a room with friends listening and chatting about it in person. They pick on every grammatical error and plot hole, and not to mention the ridiculous scenarios and inept sales work.
Can't fault this at all, it's downright hilarious and I'll be very sad if/when I get to the last episode.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Tiptoes (2003) in Movies
May 13, 2021
It may all be very well-intentioned and motivated by genuine sympathy for the short person community, but the sight of Oldman kneeling down behind various low objects or embedded in a sofa with fake short legs attached to it disastrously sabotages the film. That said, even if they'd opted for more height-appropriate casting, I suspect the contrived melodrama of the movie would still be difficult to take seriously. A deeply bizarre film, and perhaps deservedly obscure.
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) Jul 21, 2020